Device for cutting flaps of sweat-bands.



No. 874,571. BATE-RTE!) m: m, m?

H. B. GRAMPTON.

DEVICE FOR GETTING FLAPS 0F SWEAT BANDS} APPLICATION FILED EAR. 12, 1907.

.10 -ting flaps of sweat matter of m the State of New HENRY B. CRAMPTON, OF SYR iicusnpnnw YORK.

pnvrcn'roa cu'r'rnve FLAPS or SWEAT-BANDS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

-- Patented Dec. 24,1907.

Application mm March 12.1907. Serial No. 361.965-

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, HENRY B. CRAM-PTON, of- Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Devices for Cutting Flaps of Sweat-Bands, of which the following, taken in connect on with the accom- (which is to form head.

I "at shearing edges ,or

f curved to conform This invention relates to a device for an body 15 nying drawings, is a full, clear', and exact esciiptlon.

cutbands forming the subject g pplication No. 361,964, filed March 12, 1907 the objectof the sweat band withintegral fla s adapted to be folded between the band of the hatto vary its size and to enable the hat to be more closely fitted to the The object of my present invention is to rovide simple, practical andeflicient means or cutting these flaps in the sweat bands, such device being adapted to be used by retailers and for this purpose is made portable to be carried about the store from place to place as may be desired or it may be permanently attached to a suitable bench or table and used in one place.

Other more specific objects will be brought out in the following description. i

- In the drawings-Figure 1 is a transverse vertical sectional view of my sweat band cutter, shown inoperative osition to cut one of the-flaps in said ban Fig. 2 is a sectional view" taken on line 2-2, Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the detached cutters. 1 i

- This cutter comprises -1-" curved longitud essentially a bed the curvature of the sweat band as -'-a, of

a vhat -'A-, said bed being provided with grooves -2- hich cowith suitable cutters 3 and the latter being mounted upon and secured to a vertically movable frame -'5'- operate which is adapted to be operated by any suitable mechanism as a lever 6 The cutter -.3- is made in the form of a knife blade having its lower cutting edge to the curvatuxeof the upper face of the bed -1-jand sweatband -,a. which rests upon the bed.'1- 1n the act of cuttin theflaps therein, said blade .3-. being ofthe same length as the length of the fla which it is desired to cut in the band, an is secured by suitable fastening l the blade -3 1 teeth means as screws --6- to the adjacent side of the frame --5-, the lower cutting edge of the blade 3- cut through the leather or band g points throughout its length. i The. blade -4 is secured by suitablefasg tening means as screws -7- to the outer or 1 rear side of the frame -5 and is similar to l p except that its lower cutting edg'e isserrated to form a series of cutting +8- spaced apart for the purpose of cutting through the sweat band at intervals along the folding line of the lie which may j be designated by the reference letter -a'-. 1 These cutting blades -3- and --4 are parallel and of substantially equal length and their lower cutting edges shear with the corresponding shearing edges in the bed --1- when the frame -5 is moved downi'wardly by the lever 6-.

The ends of the fia s -aare cut from the main body -a y end blades -10- which are secured-to the opposite end of the frame 5- and, therefore, at the opposite 'ends of the blades 3- and 4 and shear with corresponding edges 1 1- in the bed 1-, the ower cutting edges of said end blades -10 being continuous so as to cut entirely through the leather at throughout their lengths from the blade -3- to the blade -4-- transverselyof the sweat The distance between the blades -3- and -4- determines the transverse width of the flap and is usually about equal or slightly less than the distance fromthe perforating blade 4- to the junction of the sweat band with theJim of the hat. In this particular instance the cutter blade 3- is arranged to engage and cut the band a slight distance from its outer longitudinal edge and in order that the standard sweat band uniform distances from the free edge I provide the bed -1- with a stop shoulder -12- against which the free e ge of the band is adapted to be brought when resting on the bed -;1 and re dy for cutting the flap therein.

The frame 5- may be moved to and from the bed --1- b any desired means as the l lever 6- whi'c is pivoted" at -7 to' the bed in front of the shoulders -12 andis I provided with a suitable handpiece .w13--- which together wi h an extension -14- on the bed -I-- are adapted to be engaged by all points Q swan the hand, theerm -13"being rocked up-- bands comprising a bed having iengvihwise wai dly to force the agl m dnwnwardly into and tra nsverse groovestherein, a cutter supcutting position. porting head-movemete and from thegbed, Whep- Lclaim is: V a g and provided with a lengthwise serrated cut- 1. A device for cutting flaps of sweat U bands comprising two shearing elements; one of said elements being movable toward and from .ishe ether nnd profigided with a lengthwise seiiated cutting-edge, and eddip'iojecting at i substantially Verse cutters entering the othei' groove. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my i hand this 6th day of March 1907.

E RY is; QRAMFION.

ti'onnl cutters right angles'fronithe ends of the serrated Witnesses: cutter. E.CHASE,'

2. A device for cutting flapsin sweaf 7 7. M. MCCOR AQK.

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